Posts Tagged ‘News’
Fedora To Eventually Move to Wayland Too
OSnews: “Well, what do we have here? It turns out that Ubuntu isn’t the only Linux distribution who took a left turn off the X.org highway, now driving on a road that will eventually lead to replacing X.org with Way...
10 Reasons Open Source Is Good for Business
PCWorld: “With the many business and government organizations that now use open source software such as Linux, it’s becoming increasingly clear that price is not the only advantage such software holds. If it were, c...
Kinect Hacker Hector Shows Redmond Who’s Daddy
Acrossad: “The events of this week reminded me why I love GNU, Linux, and free software so much. We leverage the power of communities of independent people better than any organization on the planet. It is simply a fact t...
Five features in Android 2.3
Arstechnica: “Android 2.3, codenamed Gingerbread, is expected to materialize this month. Little is known about Gingerbread’s features, however, because Google develops the operating system behind closed doors and do...
Linux Best for Kids and Childrens
Believe it or not, there are several distributions of Linux intended for use by children as young as 3 years old. Child-oriented Linux distros tend to have a simplified interface with large, “chunky”, colourful icons and a ...
Why Wayland is good for the future of Ubuntu
openceo: “The recent announce at UDS about the fact that the venerable X server & protocols will not be the default choice for Unity and as a consequence Ubuntu was a shock for some, it is clearly a relief for me. In...
OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 Almost Here – Is It the Last?
Ostatic: “OpenOffice.org 3.3 Release Candidate 3 was released on November 1 with many updates and new features that have been in development for the last six months or more. This comes when as many as 33 OpenOffice.org de...
What’s next in GNOME
Stormyscorner: “The thoughts and ideas in this post are mine and not necessarily representative of what the GNOME Foundation thinks or plans to do. Canonical will be shipping Unity as the default desktop for Ubuntu 11.04....
What’s new in Linux 2.6.36
H-Online: “The new kernel version is notable because it hasn’t grown in size – yet it contains hundreds of advancements which will be obvious to end users, who don’t often notice changes in their Linux distr...
Help Windows users quit, switch to Linux
It’s funny how some people react when I tell them I use Linux. Other’s get caught up in all the brand loyalty hype and still some have never heard of Linux! The truth of the matter is that I switched partly because ...
LibreOffice – A Fork of OpenOffice
Last month the OpenOffice community made a big decision to break away from Oracle and have formed The Document Foundation. Development for OpenOffice has been going on form about a decade now under Sun Microsystem. However, aft...
Mandriva: We’re not dead
H Open: “In a reaction to the founding of the Mageia project and to a question posed on the Cooker mailing list, the French Linux distributor Mandriva has commented on its current situation and future plans. The company s...
Blender – free open source 3D content creation
Blender is a free open source 3D modelling and graphics software widely used for making animated movies. Blender is the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playb...
A Windows App That Works Better in Wine Than Windows
Decentralist: “As Microsoft slowly breaks old compatibility, and Wine continues to improve Windows compatibility. it seems only a matter of time before some Windows programs run better in Wine than in Windows. Last week, ...
Five Features to Look Forward to in Firefox 4.0
Linux.com: ” Firefox 4.0 is still a bit away from final release, but the time to think about switching is now. The Mozilla Project is releasing Firefox 4.0 beta 6 this week, and the current builds are really good. Why swi...
Linux servers, Windows XP desktops
NetworkWorld: “He and his team have built an infrastructure that gives everyone their favorite operating system. At his company, he’s running Ubuntu 9.1x on nearly all of the company’s 20-odd servers and Windo...
Is the Web heading toward redirect hell?
Royal Pingdom: “Google is doing it. Facebook is doing it. Yahoo is doing it. Microsoft is doing it. And soon Twitter will be doing it. We’re talking about the apparent need of every web service out there to add intermed...
Mozilla turns off update notification as it works on stability problem
H-online: “Mozilla has reportedly stopped issuing security updates for its open source Firefox web browser as it looks into a bug that is causing some users’ systems to crash. According to InfoWorld, the non-profit ...
Mozilla Unleashes The Kraken
Linux-Magazine: “The Mozilla Project announced the release of a new JavaScript benchmark that focuses on real world applications and forward-looking applications. Called Kraken, the benchmark addresses the elements of the...
OpenSolaris spork ready for download
TheRegister: “It is not quite ready for primetime, but with the announcement of OpenIndiana, a so-called spork of Oracle’s OpenSolaris Unix distribution, the server world is getting a familiar, re-opened, and commun...
Firefox 4 gets fast
Mybroadband: “Mozilla adds hardware acceleration to its latest beta release It’s not entirely a surprise but Mozilla has included hardware acceleration in its latest beta release, beta 5. It’s not a surprise b...
Compiz 0.9.2 Showcase
If you are long time Linux user, then just may be you are also a compiz fanatic, like me. I use a lot a compiz animations in my desktop and not my laptop, but I can’t think of a Gnome desktop without Compiz. They are blen...
How the Cloud is Changing the Way SysAdmins Work
Ostatic: “Just because a business moves its systems to the cloud, it doesn’t mean less work for system administrators. Though cloud computing puts more resources and tools at a sysadmin’s fingertips, thereR...
Telling the Truth about Linux
I had made a list about the truth about Linux. Truths are: 1. Operating system without paying, It’s free. 2. Linux speak many languages. 3. No Virus. 4. No more pirates but legal software. 5. Lot of software come with the...
99.4 percent of malware is aimed at Windows users
Daniweb: “Have you ever thought about measuring the Internet in terms if malware per minute? Me neither, but someone has and it makes for uncomfortable reading if you are a Microsoft Windows user. How fast is the Internet...
Asia not ready for key apps to go open source
ZDnet: “Organizations in Asia are not as ready to go open source for key business applications, experts in the region say. Over in the United Kingdom and United States, it is a different story with inclination growing, a ...
PlayOnLinux 3.8.x
PlayOnLinux (POL) is a python-based frontend (with bash install scripts) to install windows programs in Wine. Originally, the program’s purpose was to let new Linux users install their favorite windows games with ease. Si...
UbuntuOne gets better
MyBroadband: “Cloud storage services offers Ubuntu users an ever increasing range of features Most users have heard of Dropbox, the online storage application which makes it easy to save files in the “cloud”. ...
Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal
Mark Shuttleworth, father of the popular Ubuntu operating system, proudly announced the name and the goals for the next version of Ubuntu. Mark Shuttleworth: “And so, we come swiftly to a conclusion: allow me to introduce...
How corporate in America went open-source
Fortune: “There was a time when open-source software was the domain of computer geeks and do-it-yourselfers with more time than money. But, as Oracle’s legal salvo against Google highlighted last week, those days ar...
Howto Create own Linux Distro?
Before i get started, there are a few question i need you to make that will define your distro. Every Linux distro makes these choices, so you need to crack your head now! 1. Live CD, USB Live Media? Depend whether you want a s...
Wine 1.3.2 Released
Wine lets you run Windows software on other operating systems. With Wine, you can install and run these applications just like you would in Windows. Wine enables Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, and Solaris users to run Windows application...
Samsung unveils Android tablet with 3G telephony
Eric Brown: “Samsung Electronics announced its much-anticipated Android consumer tablet, due to ship in Europe in mid-September. The Samsung Galaxy Tab runs Android 2.2 on a 1GHz Cortex-A8 processor, and offers a seven-in...
Ubuntu 10.10 UTouch
MultiTouch support is slowly becoming a standard feature of almost all modern operating systems. Now, the Ubuntu 10.10 is also joining the bandwagon of the operating systems that support multitouch gestures. This new multitouch...
Building a Linux Media Center PC
ExtremeTech: “Media Center PCs have been around for almost a decade—even longer if you count earlier forays like Gateway’s Destination PC lineup from the mid-1990s. It’s not just about PCs, either. More rece...
KDE Releases 4.5.1
On the 31st of August 2010 kde.org releases kde 4.5.1 “KDE updated the Applications, Platform and Plasma Workspaces to 4.5.1, new releases bringing a number of important bugfixes on top of 4.5.0. 4.5.0 was released only t...
apt-file: Locate Missing Package Files
LinuxJournal: “Ever had a source package fail to build due to a missing file? If so, apt-file, a tool that searches online repositories for a specific file, may be the answer. Occasionally, when building a package from so...
Benchmarks Of ZFS-FUSE On Linux Against EXT4, Btrfs
Phoronix: “For those not familiar with the GPL-licensed Linux FUSE module, it is a Linux kernel module that has been living within the mainline kernel since the Linux 2.6.14 release and it allows non-privileged users to c...
Android x86, Google famous Android.
A new operating system, a port of Google’s famous Android platform for the x86 (32-bit) architecture. Simply named Android-x86, this Live CD Linux distribution is designed mostly for the Eee PC netbooks, but can also run ...
Howto update OpenSuse 11.2 to OpenSuse 11.3
Since OpenSuse 11.3 has been released, do you ever wonder how you can upgrade it without re-installing a fresh new? It is something similar to upgrading that i had posted before for linux mint. The upgrade can be done on the co...
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